Assessing Costs & Cost-variability Among Enrollees of Health Insurance Programs Utilizing Charlson's Comorbidity Index and Administrative Databases

Multiple Chronic Illnesses Clinical Trial

Official title:

Assessing Costs & Cost-variability Among Enrollees of Health Insurance Programs Utilizing Charlson's Comorbidity Index and Administrative Databases

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01761253
• Other study ID #: WCMC IRB No. 910010709
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 2, 2013
• Last updated: February 17, 2017
• Start date: June 2006
• Est. completion date: July 2010

Study information

• Verified date: February 2017
• Source: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will involve the evaluation of the cost profile of about approximately 241,000 patients (15,000 who are members of the Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network AND 226,000 members of a large self insured union trust fund). We will test the hypothesis that as comorbidity scores exceed three-four, patients will have an exponential increase in average yearly cost with a parallel exponential increase in cost variability.

We will examine the relationship between comorbidity and health insurance costs and variability in costs among patients enrolled in health plans.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 241000
• Est. completion date: July 2010
• Est. primary completion date: July 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with different burdens of comorbidity who have at least two continuous years of enrollment in the Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network between June 2007 to July 2009 and members of a large self insured union trust fund from 2007-2010

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Disease
• Multiple Chronic Illnesses

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network	Bronx	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Assessing costs & cost-variability among enrollees of health insurance programs utilizing Charlson's comorbidity index and administrative databases	Data for approximately 241,000 patients (15,000 who are members of the Generations Plus/ Northern Manhattan Health Network and 226,000 members of a large self insured union trust fund) during the calendar years 2006 and 2010 will be assembled and will include age, gender, length of plan enrollment, whether or not the patient is disabled, and their diagnoses. The data within this dataset was collected between July 2006 and July 2010.	The data within this dataset was collected between July 2006 and July 2010.